Claude W. Kinder

For over thirty years he was engineer-in-chief of the Kaiping Tramway and Imperial Railways of North China.

Chinese politics initially prevented the building of this railway and in consequence Kinder surveyed and built a canal for coal barges to operate between the river at Lutai and Hsukochuang (Xugezhuang) from where a short tramway was constructed to Tangshan.

[4] The government authority for the tramway had intended that only mules were to be used for hauling coal wagons but Kinder (with Tong King Sing's connivance) secretly constructed a home-built steam locomotive which was christened "The Rocket of China", the first steam locomotive ever made in China.

[2] Claude Kinder's papers are held by the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Manchester.

Crush, Peter (2013) "Imperial Railways of North China" – "关内外铁路" 皮特•柯睿思 著. Bilingual in English and Simplified Chinese.